Israelites, Pharisees & Sadducees In The 21st Century Church

"The coercive psychological influence of these programs aim to overcome the
individual's critical thinking abilities and free will - apart from any appeal to informed
judgment. Victims gradually lose their ability to make independent decisions and
exercise informed consent. Their critical thinking, defenses, cognitive processes,
values, ideas, attitudes, conduct and ability to reason are undermined by a
technological process rather than by meaningful free choice, rationality, or the inherent
merit or value of the ideas or propositions being presented."
I think I can say without fear of contradiction that the hallmark of the revival has been a
"submit now, think later" strategy, designed to achieve the very condition described
above.
One of the most difficult aspects of the revival that believers have had to face is the
constant pressure to abandon their critical abilities and to accept the manifestations,
power and doctrine at face value, simply on the say-so of their leaders. Not only is this
inimical to biblical doctrine, but it is a technique much more suited to mind control than
Christian preaching or teaching.
Stories are legion of the leaders passing judgement on anyone who dares to question
the revival doctrines or activities; many have been the reports from those who were
branded as blasphemers or driven out of their fellowships for exercising caution and
stopping to examine what was going on, rather than check their brains at the door.
The cry goes up "submit! submit!" and all who do not are immediately suspect.
Just as in cults, mindlessness and passivity is encouraged among the revival followers.
Believers are urged to "clear your minds; make your minds blank - just receive". On the
contrary, God urges us to fully use our minds, to test the spirits, to pore over doctrines
to see if they be according to his word, and never, never to become a passive
automaton willing to accept everything we hear or are commanded to do.
Above all, I feel, it has been the willingness of Christians to be unthinkingly led by those
claiming to be in authority over them that has opened the way for massive deception in
the churches.
MIND CONTROL TACTICS
The article cited above is not a Christian one, but was reportedly used to make the US
Government aware of the coercive activities of certain cults and secular groups. It made
the observation that physical acts of coercion formerly used by the military, etc., - such
as deprivation, pain, imprisonment, threat and torture - were now seen as a LESS
effective method than the psychological tactics seen listed below.
In other words, when any group, or any government, needs to slowly alter the beliefs
and thoughts of the populace, they can effectively do this without harming or alarming
anyone, without incurring legal penalties, and while being supported and funded by
those very people whom it seeks to enslave!
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